Mrs. Midnight: and Other Stories by Reggie Oliver

A television truth exhibit host is helping to revive an East finish tune corridor and uncovers the dreadful mystery of Mrs middle of the night and her Animal Comedians. . . . A historian travels to Switzerland to ghost the autobiography of an exiled Balkan king and encounters a sinister cult. . . . The grasp of an Oxford university attempts to introduce a doubtful piece of contemporary sculpture into his collage chapel with dire effects. . . . a wierd assembly happens on a enjoying box among an officer on go away from the trenches and his former headmaster. . . .
The settings and characters in Reggie Oliver’s 5th selection of ‘strange’ tales are as diversified and strange as ever, although, as in prior volumes, the theatre types the milieu of a couple of his stories. however the theatres aren't simply English ones, within the provinces and the West finish: one is at the Black Sea; one other in post-colonial Kenya. subject matters are both various, yet underlying all is a deep experience of the religious under-currents slightly under the outside of daily life, and the precariousness of ‘normality’.

Reggie Oliver is an English playwright, biographer and author of ghost tales. His paintings has seemed in a couple of anthologies, together with the Year’s most sensible myth and Horror and The tremendous booklet of top New Horror.

Mrs middle of the night and different tales comprises: "Mrs Midnight", "Countess Otho", "Meeting with Mike", "The Dancer within the Dark", "Mr Pigsny", "The Brighton Redemption", "You don't have anything to Fear", "The Philosophy of the Damned", "The Mortlake Manuscript", "The Look", "The Giacometti Crucifixion","A Piece of Elsewhere", "Minos or Rhadamanthus".

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Laveda drew out her dagger. Standing near the fire, she raised it high and slowly turned in a circle. ” they roared. The drums rumbled. The congregation, still kneeling, swayed to the rhythm. ” Laveda yelled, wandering among her people. “It flows and winds. We shall drink from its shores, this night. We shall drink its all powerful waters and take its power into ourselves. The river is endless. Its waters flow forever. ” She stopped and placed her open hand on the head of the beautiful young mulatto.